Mad Cow: Lies, lies, and more lies...

[tedzbear]

First the BBC reports our agricultural secretary saying this:

"We remain confident in the safety of our food supply," Ms Veneman told reporters - adding that she planned to serve beef on Christmas Day.

"The dairy cow had been sick or injured and was never destined for the public food supply," Ms Veneman said.

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Then the Guardian says this:

"The infected cow identified yesterday was a Holstein which was tested because it was a "downer", unable to walk, when it arrived at a Washington state slaughterhouse. The meat from the cow was nevertheless sent to a processing plant.

Agriculture department investigators were yesterday urgently trying to track it down."

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If you guys find anymore obfuscations by our "honest investigative media" please post it here. Thanks.

[Cry Freedom]

1. The meat and produce

in the Western world has all been poisoned by Al Queda.

We must live by chocolate alone!

[barbaraann]

3. No. The agrobusiness corporations have poisoned our meat.

That's why it was already banned by many European countries even before this mad cow problem.

See the book "Fast Food Nation." Al Queda doesn't need to tamper with our food supply--it's already dangerous.

[izzie]

5. I do think Bush did a thing on this meat stuff. Roll back stuff.

More important we have rich meat companies than safe food. I am going to sick to fish.Fresh from the ater front and you can see the boats :puke:

[Cronus Protagonist]

10. Let us eat CAKE

As long as it's not yellowcake....

"Lick Bush" Buttons, Stickers & Magnets

[XanaDUer]

2. I saw Nightline last night about the...

one cow that was found. Now, I don't trust meat packers or cutters or processors under * to do the right thing.

I don't eat a lot of red meat, and will eat even less after this.

They had one doctor from Consumers' Union who was not downplaying the threat of BSE in the US, despite the other two guests on Nightline who were attempting to do so.

The meat industry has been de-regulated horribly, and I don't trust them to do the right thing.

And it can take BSE up to 6 yeras to show up in humans. Scary.


http://www.consumersunion.org/pub/core_food_safety/000719.html#more

[MISSDem]

7. Another good reason to be vegetarian,

and even better, vegan!

[Tempest]

4. Groups have been trying to get sick and dying cows removed for years

Maybe this will wake the public.

It should also be noted that Veneman was a beef industry lobbyist before taking the USDA job.

Before then she was on the board of directors of Monsanto, the agri-giant involved with biogenetic engineering.

[SOS]

9. Farm Sanctuary

is one such group trying to stop the abuse of "downer" cattle.
The notion that only one cow is infected seems very optimistic. Downers are routinely put into the human food chain. Too bad the USDA now works for ConAgra and IBP instead of the American public.
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From Farm Sanctuary:

by Gene Bauston

A sick cow, too weak to stand, is pulled off of a truck by a tractor and chain, then falls four feet to the ground at a stockyard. A frail, day old calf is dragged through an auction ring by a back leg, while another calf, nearly comatose, is left in a corner to die. These are not isolated incidents. Across the United States, downed animals, animals too sick or weak to even stand, are being marketed and slaughtered for human food. They suffer horribly at stockyards and slaughterhouses, and their use in the human food chain poses a threat to human health.

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Also never pointed out by the McMedia is the nature of VCJD.
This is one of the most horrible ways to die. 150 people in the UK are dead. VCJD may also be being misdiagnosed in this country since "we don't have Mad Cow here".

[Blue Gardener]

6. It's not sometimes fatal, it's always fatal!

I've heard a couple of pundits gloss over the fact that you are absolutely going to die from it if you have it. They say "usually" or "sometimes" fatal. Sorry I don't have their names, but I've had CNN on most of the day, so it's someone that's been on there today.

[Generic Other]

8. Yuck...Mad cow in my refrigerator right now!

I knew I shoulda gone with the ham.

A downer! I'll say.